A Welcome Message to New SketchUcation Members

Gaieus · 6 Dec 2008, 08:13

Hi CubeSquare and welcome.

Instead of just taking still screenshots,why don't you record the whole process in a video file?

There are lots of screen recorders out there - commercial and free alike. An example: AutoScreenReorder.

OneWay · 9 Dec 2008, 10:38

Hello everyone. I am sort of new to SketchUp. I just got the hang of the basics and I would like to learn more so here I am.

mateo soletic · 9 Dec 2008, 10:53

OneWay,
Welcome to the community enjoy your stay and
feel free to ask anything.
Cheers,
Mateo

Gaieus · 9 Dec 2008, 11:01

Hi OneWay and welcome.
As Mateo says, feel free to ask - or just read around until you know what to ask!

FenS · 19 Dec 2008, 20:07

Hi,

My name is Fred, and I am from the Netherlands.
I discovered SU about a month ago and I am loving it and to be honoust, i have joined this forum because i have a question and need your help.

In my holidays I am working in a shelter in Bosnia, and here we have a cabin (is that the correct English word?) with a lot of wooden beams which is supposed to be a house. (excuse me for incorrect English every now and then).
I am trying to learn SU myself and with the help of a Dutch forum but i have a question which they also cannot answer and who knows, maybe you can?
I have created a model of all the wooden beams we have in the shelter and this should become a house. Unfortunately we do not have the constructionplans... (and actually we are not even sure if we have all the beams)
In a thread on the Dutch forum (which unfortunately is Dutch) i have explained what we have and i have inserted the model.
Is there anybody around here who can play with this model and make a correct house? (thé correct house if possible or a big house that also might be possible? (without sawing if possible)

The link to the thread (also with some pictures that might help):
http://www.sketchupforum.nl/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=1040&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

and a link to the model:
http://www.sketchupforum.nl/gallerij/balken_voor_forum.skp

If you need more information, feel free to ask,
a lot of volunteers working in Bosnia (and the owners) would be very happy if this pile of wood could become some kind of house...

Regards,
Fred

Gaieus · 20 Dec 2008, 07:45

Hi Fred and welcome!

There are a whole bunch of Dutch people here as well so I hope they will be able to help after they read those posts.

Until then,here are a couple of topics about such log cabins (as they are called I think):
http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=12043
http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=79&t=10203
http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=6096
http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=149&t=3245

Stewy · 20 Dec 2008, 10:18

Hi everyone,

Im Stew a new SU member, Im a town planner in the UK, who also designs buildings and site layouts - a frustrated Architect really and its a useful overlap. I use Caddie for drawing and have watched other SU users over the years and finally decided to play with it now. Its actually really addictive! -Im going to have to ask for some advice about putting too much information into my drawings!

Anyway, thank you so far to Gaieus and Chris for your help on my newbie landscape/topo issues - really appreciated,

"I'll be back" (said in an Arnie kinda way)

Stew

Gaieus · 20 Dec 2008, 10:22

Hi Stew and welcome (again).

Tell me why you are (still) using SU 5 instead of 7 or at least 6?

FenS · 20 Dec 2008, 21:35

Hi Gaieus, thanks for your reply!

Wow, lot of posts already about cabins, i will sure read them!

Stewy · 22 Dec 2008, 00:14

Hi Gaieus,

I had SU4 when I worked in a Planning Consultancy and my brother in law bought me SU5 as a birthday present when i left (I mentioned that I liked it but hadn't got to play with it at all). I might buy SU7 - is it much better - hard to think that it could be

Stew

Gaieus · 22 Dec 2008, 08:20

Well, at least upgrade from SU 5 to 6 was free - you could've tried it. Now to 7 it is 95$.

There've been serious improvements in both steps. Whether it is MUCH better or not; you should try. Good news is that you can always try the free version and decide if you need the "extras" later.

mr_turco · 24 Dec 2008, 15:56

Hi everyone,

I am Eren and nice to meet you all,
I am an architect,and i am intrested in presentations thats why i start using SU,and to be honest even as a newbie i had nice feedbacks,so now i am trying to set up my web site and like to use SU for presentation also,and as far as i've sen from this forum,i am now sure that i am at the right adress to discuss anything about SU

remus · 24 Dec 2008, 16:03

Hello eren, hopefully we'll be able to help you with your queries

Gaieus · 24 Dec 2008, 16:15

Hello Eren and welcome! Surely you will find a bunch of helpful people here.

geo · 29 Dec 2008, 12:43

hello everyone ( sorry in advance for my english language..)
i'm geo ( sébastien ) and i'm frenchies from south of france
i'm very happy to discover your forum
from job side , i was technicien in aeronautique ( european helicopter manufacturer ) during last 15 years.
and, i'm totaly by the helicopter sikorsky black hawk
but now( since 1 years i have created my own compagny on renewable energy ( solar ).
and i use SU 6 free for customer case studies (i'll join example when i'll understang how to join picture to my post..)
i have plan to buy SU pro version quickly ( may be SU 7 french version ...)
regards
geo

Gaieus · 30 Dec 2008, 06:16

Hello Geo / Sébastien an welcome to the forums. I see that you have already found your way to the French subforum where there are a bunch of nice and helpful folks there

You can attach pictures or other files under the text area you are writing your post in - just scroll down.

huma65 · 30 Dec 2008, 19:54

Hi my name is Mauricio Vélez, I´m new in this community and using sketch for a few months, now I´m working with idx renditioner for rendering, and I´ll like to know if somenone has some information about this program. I have some simple examples that a have made but I don´t know if I can post them here. Well see you people. Bye.

Gaieus · 31 Dec 2008, 09:31

Hi Mauricio and welcome to the forums.

Sure you can post examples and hope there are people who can help you (I also have IDX Renditioner although I have to tell you that I have not had much time to to fully get around it yet).

wmanning · 2 Jan 2009, 19:58

Hi Mauricio,

I'm William and I'm with IDX. I'm on these forums from time to time, mostly learning about SketchUp. If you have specific Renditioner questions I should be able to help you. For general rendering and SketchUp questions the Gallery area here is fantastic for quick feedback! If they are narrow questions about how to do x or y, you will probably get faster help on the IDX forums at http://forums.idx-design.com.

JenniferFar · 2 Jan 2009, 21:27

Hi everyone,
I'm new here to the forum and hope to learn lots from everyone. Please be patient and I'll try to not be too much of a pain